[1967 R50/2]

I thought this episode was rather weak and rather poorly written

1. It was as if the writers couldn't decide to make the virus a computer virus or a biological one, so they split the difference. Not very convincing.

2. Of course the colonial's logic that the virus would have resulted in genocide is specious. Why wouldn't the cylons just isolate the resurrection ship like they did the "sick" Base Star? Or even just destroy it themselves. Apparently they have more than one resurrection ship, so no big deal.

I guess that possibility slipped by the writers too.

3. When Apollo goes to execute the cylons, he says "Shots to the back of the heads only". If he wanted to be sure their consciousness transfered to the resurrection ship, is it really wise to be blowing their brains out?

4. How does Apollo know they were out of range of the resurrection ship when the Cylons died? There has been no indication so far in this series as to what that range is...although it must be pretty far as when the original Sharon is executed in deep space, she is resurrected on Caprica!

5. Another piece of missed logic: Athena/Sharon/Boomer has antibodies that make her immune. So why can't the doctor make a vaccine to cure the cylons from those? That's how it is done in the real world. Of course, the cylons have Sharon's baby, so they could figure out a cure too....but it's more fun to torture Baltar.

Yeah...Not very well written.